Christine Egan scholarships awarded

Four Nunavut nursing students will receive scholarships this year from the Dr. Christine Egan Memorial Scholarship Fund, the first Nunavut students to benefit from the fund.

The University of Manitoba’s medical college set up the fund to honour the late Christine Egan, who worked as a nurse in Nunavut for many years, serving in Iqaluit, Cape Dorset, Pond Inlet, Coral Harbour, Sanikiluaq, Chesterfield Inlet and Rankin Inlet.

Egan died on Sept. 11, 2001, in the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Centre in New York City. She was visiting her brother, who worked at the centre.

Receiving scholarships are: third year students Rebecca Akulujuk Lonsdale and Andrea Mclarty, and fourth year students Martha Nowdlak and Sipporah Peterloosie. All four are studying at Nunavut Arctic College.